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Teacher
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- BMG: Classics World (info on artists,
composers, history of music, links)
- Douglas
Yeo Trombone Web Site ("over 250 pages of FREE information, articles and
resources available")
- Trumpet Player Online (online trumpet lessons & tips,
biographical links to famous trumpet
players, current news, etc.)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Music ("a vast collection of works in music and
music theory")
- Children's Music Web (links and information)
- Children's Music Web Guide
{links, "an attempt to list every website related to children's music")
- Classical
Midi Archives (tons of classical MIDI files, links)
- Copyright:
Guidelies for the Use of
Copyrighted Music Materials
- EducationWorld - Lesson Plan Center
(searcher and links ... check left margin for your subject area)
- EducationWorld - Performance
Arts (searcher and links)
- Eric's Treasure Trove of
Music (excellent site and resources)
- Fortissimo! ("information on
various musical topics with pictures and sounds ... Some of this information is available
to download .. all of it is for your learning and enjoyment ... site includes RealAudio
clips" ... Music Dictionary,
Composer Pictures, Composer Biographies, Instrument Pictures and Instrument Sounds")
- Franklin Institute's Educational
Hotlists: Music (links to types of music, teacher resources, etc.)
- Harmonica Man (free lessons, songs, extensive
harmonica links)
- Harmonica: Jack's Harmonica Heaven (10 harmonic
lessons, songbooks, hymnbooks, links)
- History in Song (words of songs,
links)
- History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12
Teachers: Humanities / Art (tons of links)
- History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12
Teachers: Humanities / Art (tons of links)
- K-12 Sources - Curriculum - Lesson Plans
(tons of links)
- Library of Congress: Music for the
Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 ("Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music
registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano
music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and
instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra")
- McREL
- Educator Resources (excellent
site ... "links to resources teachers
can use in the classroom, as well as reports, articles, and directories
that will help improve learning for all")
- MIDI: Laura's MIDI Heaven! (over 14,000
midi files: 50's; Beatles; BigBand/Oldies/Favorites/Jazz; Broadway/Musicals/Show Tunes;
Classical; Country; Disney; Folk/Traditional/Celtic; American; Internation; Kids and Fun
Stuff!; Movies; Patriotic/Marches; Ragtime; Spiritual/Christian; TV; Video Games;
Rock/Pop/Dance; Links Page)
- MIDI: Standard
MIDI Files on the Net ("The Most Complete & Best-Maintained
List of Sites with MIDI Files ... Well Over 30,000 Unique Links")
- miningco.com: Classical Music (searcher
& lots of links)
- miningco.com: Music (searcher & lots of
links)
- Music Education Online: Main Links
Directory (lots of links)
- Oz's
Kingdom: Music (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Quia
("a great starting point for new users ... a collection of
thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas ... more
than 400,000 activities")
- rock and roll hall of fame and museum:
Lesson Plans (50+ lesson plans, "These resources are intended to stimulate
student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote
interdisciplinary learning ... some material contained in these lessons may be considered
controversial or inappropriate by some students, educators, admininistrators and parents;
it is the responsibility of individual educators to determine whether any particular
lesson conforms to the accepted standards")
- Sibelius Academy: Music Resources
(links to all types of music: opera, church, theory, orchestra, etc.)
- Teachnet.Com: Lesson Ideas
- Woodwind
Finger Guide (over 2500 fingerings for Flute, Recorder, Clarinet,
Saxophone, Oboe, Bassoon, Tin Whistle, Irish Uilleann Pipes, Shakuhachi
Flute, Sarrusophone... links
to fingering pages)
- World Wide Arts Resources
("We provide the largest and most comprehensive gateway to the arts on the
Internet")
- Yahoo's Entertainment Music links
- Yahoo's Performing Arts Links
(music, opera, dance, mime, etc.)
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Ballet
& Dance
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- History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12
Teachers: Humanities / Art (tons of links)
- Library of Congress: Dance
Instruction Manuals, ca 1600-1920 ("Over two hundred manuals documenting the
history of social dance instruction, etiquette, and morals. Broad topics: dance,
recreation, social life, etiquette, education, music, religion, , clothing.")
- miningco.com: Ballet / Dance (searcher &
lots of links)
- Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
("provides links to three kinds of dance web sites: 1) sites that have good
collections of links, usually in a specialized area of dance, 2) sites that include
information about an area of dance, and 3) selected sites of dance organizations and
individual dancers.")
- World Wide Art Resources: Dance Resources
("thousands of dance oriented resources")
- Worldwide
Internet Music Resources @ Indiana Univ ("Individual
Musicians and Popular Groups, Composers
and Composition, Groups
and Ensembles, Other
Sites Related to Performance, Genres
and Types of Music, Research
and Study, Journals
and Magazines, The
Commercial World of Music, General
and Miscellaneous")
- Yahoo Performing Arts - Dance
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Marching
Band
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- WTHS Band ( unofficial school page
with info about the high school marching band, conert program, jazz band, indoor
percussion, calendar, etc.)
- Links
to Marching Bands by California Aggie Marching Band ("list
.. about the many other marching bands throughout the world."
... colleges,
high school,
professional,
etc.)
- marching.com (high school marching band events,
scores, links, resources)
- MarchingArts.com ("Links to Drum Corps,
Marching Bands, Winter Guards, Percussion Ensembles, Newsgroups, Magazines, and much
more!")
- MarchingLinks.com
("a comprehensive index site listing marching band suppliers,
designers, circuits, affiliations, publications, events, units and
much, much more ... [includes] drum corps, indoor guard and many
other performing groups")
- MENC
Band Issues (open bulletin board for band directors)
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Jazz
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- Jazz: an original American music art form.
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Orchestra
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- WTHS Orchestra (unofficial school page with
info about high school orchestras, links, calendar, etc.)
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Lyrics
& Sheet Music
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- Aria Database ("1272 Arias - 169
Operas - 60 Composers - 372 Translations - 1022 Aria Texts - 220 MIDIs ... besides
providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many
arias and aria texts
... access to a collection of operatic MIDI files to .. an
idea of what each aria sounds like ... complete operatic aria collections of Mozart,
Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other
composers")
- FreeSheetMusic.net ("thousands and thousands of
absolutely free sheet music downloads available on the internet ... standard musical
notation ... free software you need to play and display different notation formats .. Many
instruments supported, many different musical styles .. classical music, popular tunes,
rock-and-roll, chord sheets, lyrics, or old classics ... [for] play piano, violin, guitar,
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, dulcimer, bagpipes, accordian -- or anything else")
- Lied (The) and Song Texts Page ("this
isite houses an extensive archive of texts to thousands of Lieder (more specifically,
Kunstlieder) and other 'classical' art songs in more than twenty languages ... a
non-commercial and non-profit public service ... including partsongs, madrigals and choral
works")
- lyrics (lyrics
for hundreds of popular songs)
- Richard Robinson's
Tunebook ("a collection of traditional tunes, and new tunes in traditional styles
- Scots tunes, Irish tunes, Scandinavian, English, French, Balkan and more - available as
ABC source, and as small black-and-white gif images of the written music")
- song.lyrics.online (over
1,000 songs)
- Opera Glass @
Stanford Univ ("an opera information server on the World Wide
Web. Here you can get detailed information, including: Libretti, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, Discographies ... plus
pictures, background information, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of
operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers")
- Worldwide Internet Music
Resources @ Indiana Univ ("Individual Musicians and
Popular Groups, Composers
and Composition, Groups
and Ensembles, Other
Sites Related to Performance, Genres and Types of Music,
Research and Study, Journals and Magazines,
The Commercial World
of Music, General
and Miscellaneous")
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Vocal
Music
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- Career support for singers, vocal teachers.... Our Classical Music Catalog contains over 200 classical songs for vocal students and professionals.
- ChoralNet - the Internet Center for Choral Music
(educational links
.... wide-ranging, excellent source of links, message boards, resources, pedagogy, etc.)
- Opera Glass @
Stanford Univ ("an opera information server on the World Wide
Web. Here you can get detailed information, including: Libretti, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, Discographies ... plus
pictures, background information, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of
operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers")
- Singers.com: "In Celebration of the Human Voice"
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Composers
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- BMG: Classics World - Composers
(choose by period, name or search; info & pictures, links)
- Bach, JS: Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach @
Northern Arizona U (music, midi files, essays, background info, links, etc.)
- Chopin, Frederic Francois
- Chopin, Frederic
- Classical Compers' Archive
("access pictures and biographical information by ... [alphabetically] ...
Timelines/period ... Birthyears/interval or Nations")
- Classical Net: Basic Repertoire
- Quick Composer Reference (list of composers & info from before 1420 to present)
- Fortissimo! ("information on
various musical topics with pictures and sounds ... Some of this information is available
to download .. all of it is for your learning and enjoyment ... site includes RealAudio
clips" ... Music Dictionary,
Composer Pictures, Composer Biographies, Instrument Pictures and Instrument Sounds")
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Mozart MIDI Files
- Oz's Kingdom: Music (lots of
links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Worldwide Internet Music
Resources @ Indiana Univ ("Individual Musicians and
Popular Groups, Composers
and Composition, Groups
and Ensembles, Other
Sites Related to Performance, Genres and Types of Music,
Research and Study, Journals and Magazines,
The Commercial World
of Music, General
and Miscellaneous")
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Instruments (brass, percussion, string, woodwinds, miscellaneous)
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- Fortissimo! ("information on
various musical topics with pictures and sounds ... Some of this information is available
to download .. all of it is for your learning and enjoyment ... site includes RealAudio
clips" ... Music Dictionary,
Composer Pictures, Composer Biographies, Instrument Pictures and Instrument Sounds")
- Medieval and Renaissance
Instruments (pictures & info)
- Worldwide Internet Music
Resources @ Indiana Univ ("Individual Musicians and
Popular Groups, Composers
and Composition, Groups
and Ensembles, Other
Sites Related to Performance, Genres and Types of Music,
Research and Study, Journals and Magazines,
The Commercial World
of Music, General
and Miscellaneous")
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Brass
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Keyboard
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- Piano: Virtual keyboarding!
- The Musical Keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds.
- Tutorial: A few simple tips for playing the piano.
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Drums & Percussion
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Woodwind
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- Double-Reed: British Double Reed Society ("a non-profit-making
organisation established to further the interests of all involved with the oboe and
bassoon ... a national forum for debate and the exchange of ideas, information and advice
on all aspects of double reed instruments" ... Annotated Index of Fingerings, )
- Flute: Mark Shepard's Flute Page - Tips
on How to Play & Make Flutes ("resources for playing the modern flute,
and for playing and making simple folk flutes. Enjoy the magic of flute!")
- Harmonica: Harmonica Man (free lessons, songs, extensive
harmonica links)
- Harmonica: Jack's Harmonica Heaven (10 harmonic
lessons, songbooks, hymnbooks, links)
- Saxophones: ISHP - International Saxophone Home Page ("If
you love saxophones, you're HOME... Articles
{including the tale of the Varitone "electric saxophone", Saxophone Buyer's
Guide, a brief history of Selmer saxophones}, Links {the most comprehensive lists of
saxophone links}, Reviews {exclusive
reviews of what other saxophonists are doing}
- Woodwinds: Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone: Hite Site ("As a reference for students and
teachers we offer a Clarinetist's
Study Guide, a Saxophonist's
Study Guide and an Oboist's
Study Guide. Here you'll find outlines for seven levels of achievement and
recommended repertoire for each level ... single file versions are available for printing - clarinet and saxophone
only")
- Woodwinds: Woodwind Finger Guide (over 2500
fingerings for Flute, Recorder, Clarinet, Saxophone, Oboe, Bassoon, Tin Whistle, Irish
Uilleann Pipes, Shakuhachi Flute, Sarrusophone.
- Woodwinds: Tips for Begining Bassoonists
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String
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Miscellaneous
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- Accordian:about the instrument as a whole, a full description of the sound-producing mechanism.
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Drama
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- Alex - Catalogue of Electronic Texts
("collection of digital documents ... items from American literature, English
literature, and Western philosophy ... search for and display texts .. search the content
of located texts ... search the content of multiple documents simultaneously ... free
goodies available for downloading")
- Drama lesson plans: Theatre lesson plans.
- Costume Page: Costuming Resources
Online (history of costuming, sources, links, etc.)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Drama ("a collection of plays, modern works and
classics")
- Cinema - How are Hollywood films made?
by Annenberg/CPB Exhibits ("Join us as we explore this creative process, from the
screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut. Write your own dialogue for a scene or put
yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film.")
- Library of Congress: The New Deal
Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 ("Playscripts,
production materials, photographs, and administrative records selected from the output of
a New Deal WPA arts project. Broad topics: celebrities and prominent individuals, the
arts, comedy and drama, music, recreation.")
- Library of Congress: The American
Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 (Multiformat collection
of selected materials from the popular stage and allied arts. Photographs and memorabilia
of Houdini; English playscripts; Yiddish playscripts; a selection of playbills and program
books; motion pictures; and sound recordings.")
- MISD: Lessons and Project - The Globe
Theatre ("explores the Globe Theatre as well as its recent reconstruction")
- Oz's Kingdom: Literature &
Drama (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Playwrights Union of Canada: Who's
Who in the Playwrights Union of Canada (listing of playwriters, pictures, biography
and list of their plays)
- Scenes for High School
Drama Students! ("collection of ... excellent quality scripts and monologues that
are both demanding and a pleasure to perform!" and links)
- School Show Page (K-12, full-text
plays, directing & staging tips, links, etc.)
- Southern Illinois U: History of Costume
("'Zur Geschichte der Kostüme' was printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich ... a total
of 500 costume designs" .. other links)
- Stage, The (monologues,
improv games and audition tip, links)
- Theatre Lesson Plan Exchange (K-12
activities for teaching drama)
- Theatre Through the Ages
(excellent site for history of plays, mime, staging, drama, vaudeville, etc.)
- Virginia Tech:
Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature through Drama and Role Play
(""Young adult literature provides rich literary material for exploring issues
and dilemmas of the human experience as perceived by the young. The dramatization of
cultural pluralism is one of the major roles this literature can play. The adolescent
years are timely years for dealing with issues of discrimination, prejudice, and cultural
differences since adolescents often perceive themselves as a "culture" apart
from the mainstream.")
- World Wide Arts Resources
("We provide the largest and most comprehensive gateway to the arts on the
Internet")
- World Wide Art Resources: Theatre Resources
("thousands of theatre oriented resources")
- Yahoo Theater Links
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